Bathophilus vaillanti

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Bathophilus vaillanti
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Stomiidae
Genus: Bathophilus
Species:
B. vaillanti
Binomial name
Bathophilus vaillanti
(Zugmayer, 1911)

Bathophilus vaillanti is a species of barbeled dragonfish in the genus Bathophilus. [1] [2] [3] The species has been documented in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, [4] and fully-grown members of the species can reach a maximum length of ~18 centimeters. [4]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of French zoologist Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Bathophilus vaillanti (Zugmayer, 1911)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  2. ↑ "Bathophilus vaillanti (Zugmayer, 1911)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  3. ↑ "Bathophilus vaillanti". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  4. 1 2 "Bathophilus vaillanti". www.fishbase.se. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  5. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family STOMIIDAE Bleeker 1859 (Dragonfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
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